->''[My employer] had to shape up their employment practices to keep this Defense contract. They managed to pick six women, two blacks, two chicanos, an oriental, a paraplegic and me into a total of eight hirings. We all count in at least two categories, you see.''
-->-- '''Reba [=McClane=] (blind and female)''', ''[[TheSilenceOfTheLambs Red Dragon]]''

->''The ideal quango appointee is a Black Welsh disabled woman trades unionist. We're all looking for one of them. You don't happen to know any one, do you?''
-->-- '''[[TheHumphrey Sir Humphrey Appleby]]''', ''[[YesMinister Yes, Minister]]''

Called a "twofer" by media analysts. A cast member or show participant which represents two TokenMinority groups at once. More stark when most other participants on a show are white males.

Many news broadcasting teams have a white male, and a female minority member (usually black, hispanic, or Asian). This allows them to have a diverse appearing team even though the number of people on their crew is small. This "twofer" is a practice that is common in the industry, and is commonly criticized by media watchdogs and minority interest groups. In particular, the complaint that comes up frequently is that it limits the roles and jobs available to black men.

Women are invariably treated as a "minority" for the purposes of building a "twofer", when in reality females make up a small ''majority'' in most developed industrial nations. However women still have a low-and-only-slowly-increasing participation in media, as a result of long-term social exclusion, SoYeah...
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!!Examples

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[[folder: Anime ]]

* The thankfully-aborted ''SD Gundam'' [[{{Americanitis}} adaptation for Western Audiences]], ''Doozy Bots'', would have had the black guy in a wheelchair. [[UnfortunateImplications He would have turned into a "Doozy Bot" that ran on tractor treads.]]

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[[folder: Comic Books ]]

*Dr. Cecilia Reyes from ''XMen'' is a fourfer: black, Puerto Rican, female, and mutant, though it's ''X-Men'' so me might have to bump it down to threefer because of that last one..
* And let's not forget Ororo Munroe, aka. Storm. At one point in the comics, another character actually points out that she seems to have an even mix of African, Asian, and Caucasian features.
** The somewhat mysterious origin of the Asian/"Asian" component to her features (which are completely atypical for the African community she comes from, and seemingly unique only to her and her maternal ancestors) is actually a plot point at various times.
*Magdelena Marie aka Veda from the Order is half German, half Mexican, as well as female. This is somewhat lampshaded with her dropping her last name (Neuntauben) for the media because people had trouble pronouncing it.
*Connor Hawke, son of DC's Green Arrow is a mix of White, Black and Korean. Artists and colorists sometimes have trouble reflecting this in his depiction.
** Mia Dearden, the current Speedy, is a Twofer: female and HIV positive.
* In the Bat-Family, Cassandra Cain is a Threefer: female, Asian, and has a learning disability due to her torturous childhood. The family also has Oracle (female, handicapped). Nightwing might count in the context of the Bats: not only is he {{Roma}}, but also relatively sane.
**There's also [[CanonImmigrant Renee Montoya]]: female, Hispanic, and a lesbian.
** And her recent love interest Kate Kane (Batwoman), who is a Jewish lesbian.
* Claremont's ''Gen13'' run had a threefer - a wheelchair-bound black Muslim. Fourfer if you count his having superpowers.
* Wiccan from the Young Avengers is both Jewish and gay.
** His boyfriend Hulkling is a gay Kree-Skrull hybrid.
** Gay-Jewish-Mutant-Gypsy(from his sorta, "it's-a-long-story" mother, Scarlet Witch). Hmm.
* The Anarchist in X-Statix (at the time X-Force) hangs one of the most blatant lampshades of this trope in recent memory in the ''first issue'': "I'm black, and I'm a mutant. That's like being black twice!"
* When JuddWinick wrote Outsiders, the team rarely featured a member that wasn't visibly non-human or a minority: there's the aforementioned {{Roma}} Nightwing, adopted Navajo Arsenal, Japanese Katana, green-skinned Jade, blue-skinned robot Indigo, multi-colored Shift (a sort-of clone of Rex Mason, Metamorpho), and orange-skinned alien Starfire. He tops it off with Asian Amazon bisexual Grace Choi and black lesbian Thunder. A few boring white people eventually join the ranks, including Captain Marvel Jr. and Captain Boomerang, but they don't last.
* Laura Dean, in AlphaFlight, is black, pre-pubescent, female, and ''autistic''. Also, a mutant. (Not sure that one should count though, since it doesn't make her a minority either on the team or in the real world.)
** AlphaFlight was an outright freak show at times. Centennial was both black and old (the smallest minority in all of superherodom)
* In the early 1990s, ''ArchieComics'' had the short-lived black girl Anita in a wheelchair.
* The second MarvelComics Captain Marvel, Monica Rambeau. Done as a pretty earnest attempt to create a strong Twofer superhero until the next writer [[CharacterDerailment threw away all her character development]] and she got pigeonholed as an author's pet.
* Echo (formerly Ronin): Hispanic and deaf.

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[[folder: Film ]]

* ''The Family Stone'' had a deaf, gay son who was dating a black man. OrSoIHeard.
* In the 2008 remake of ''The Women'', Jada Pinkett Smith plays a black lesbian. [[OrSoIHeard Or So I Also Heard]].
* The movie ChasingAmy includes the character Hooper X, a gay black comic writer posing as a militant black panther ''{{expy}}'' in order to sell more comics.

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[[folder: Literature ]]

* Susannah Dean of StephenKing's ''TheDarkTower'' is black, female, legless and has multiple personality disorder; notably, every other member of her ka-tet is a white male, except for Oy, who is a billy-bumbler (but Oy is male as well).
* Angua in the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, at least in the first book. Later, other women (mostly dwarves) join the force.
** Played with because only one of her minority statuses is evident. For example, she says "Is this because I'm a w--" and gets cut off before you know she's actually trying to say "[[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]]," not "woman."
* In ''{{Cryptonomicon}}'' by NealStephenson, the main character has deliberately hired a twofer:
**"Since most hackers are white males, their companies are disaster areas when it comes to diversity, and it follows that all of the diversity must be concentrated in the one or two employees who are not hackers. In the part of a federal equal-opportunity form where Randy would simply check a box labeled CAUCASIAN, Kia would have to attach multiple sheets on which her family tree would be ramified backwards through time ten or twelve generations until reaching ancestors who could actually be pegged to one specific ethnic group without glossing anything over, and those ethnic groups would be intimidatingly hip ones--not Swedes, let's say, but Lapps, and not Chinese but Hakka, and not Spanish but Basque."
* ''TheDresdenFiles'' gives us black Russian man Sanya. Possible threefer, given he's an agnostic ''knight of the Cross.''
* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Reba in ''{{Red Dragon}},'' the novel to which ''{{The Silence of the Lambs}}'' is the significantly better-known sequel. She herself is a blind woman who works for a photographic film processing company; she jokes that between her and another woman, the company managed to pack eight different minorities into two hires.
* ''{{Remnants}}'' was full of twofers, threefers and fourfers. The cast was ethnically diverse, most ended up orphaned, and some had mutations or physical abnormalities. Tate was a fivefer: a black female lesbian mutant orphan.

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* Thanks to racial blind-casting in ''GreysAnatomy'' , Dr. Cristina Yang is Korean, Jewish-turned-atheist, and dyslexic. The explanation is that her Korean mother married a Jewish man after Cristina was born and thus the whole family converted. Now if ONLY the TV show could've been less afraid of showing gay people...
** Cristina is also the academic equivalent of a Twofer - a [=PhD=]-MD.
*Probably the most notable and obvious example is Uhura from ''[[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'', who was black and female (and was almost the only recurring character with either of these characteristics).
** Hikaru Sulu has both Japanese ''and'' Filipino racial orgins, intended to represent all of Asia to the audience.
** Hoshi on ''StarTrekEnterprise'' (Asian and female).
** Geordi [=LaForge=] on ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' (black and blind).
** It should at least be noted that StarTrek ''always'' has a multi-ethnic cast featuring at least one alien. DeepSpaceNine had five alien main character, two of which were white females.
** ''Voyager'' had B'Elanna Torres, who was female, Latina, and half-Klingon.
*** It also had Tuvok, who was black [[TheSpock and]] [[TokenNonhuman nonhuman]].
* Another old example is Juan Epstein on ''Welcome Back, Kotter'', a Puerto Rican Jew.
* Carter from ''SpinCity'' (black and gay). Lampshaded in an episode where Carter refers to himself as a minority and a character sarcastically remarks "What do you mean, a "minority"? You're black and you're gay. You cover up two thirds of the Earth's surface. You're like ''water''."
* Marianne Jean-Baptiste's character on ''WithoutATrace'' (black and female).
* Lisa Gay Hamilton on ''ThePractice'' (black and female).
** Just so we're clear, we're talking about a show whose main cast, initially, was the aforementioned black female, an overweight white woman, a black guy, a white woman, a skinny white woman, and one staunchly Catholic, impliedly Irish white guy, shortly joined by an chubby Italian guy?
* Lt. Van Buren on ''LawAndOrder'' (black and female). This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in one episode, where she notes that people probably think she got the job (as police lieutenant, not actress in a hit legal drama) for diversity reasons.
* Cambridge on ''PieInTheSky'' (black and female) -- may not count, since the series has multiple female recurring characters, but worth mentioning because she's a TwoferTokenMinority ''in-story'', picked by her PointyHairedBoss as an efficient way of demonstrating his equal-opportunity-employer credentials.
* Marissa on ''EarlyEdition'' takes this one step further: She's black, female, ''and'' blind.
* Toshiko Sato would count on most shows, being Asian and apparently bisexual, but in ''{{Torchwood}}'', the latter actually puts her in the majority.
* Djaq on the current BBC ''Series/RobinHood'', female and Arab.
* Stevie from ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' lampshades this, noting that as a black man in a wheelchair, he can get pretty much any job he wants because people love to have a two-in-one minority member around.
* Det Kima Greggs from ''TheWire'' is a ''fourfer'' (female, black/Korean mixed-race lesbian). Omar Little is a black gay man; his boyfriends have been Jewish, Hispanic and black. Their status as Twofer Token Minorities is debatable, however--the cast of TheWire is at least two thirds black, and neither character was tokenized.
* James Spurlock from ''[[{{ptitleolsdue4jfzga}} 30 Rock]]'' is actually called "Toofer" because as one character says "with him you get a two-for-one; he's a black guy and a Harvard guy."
** The cast actually calls him Toofer so often that some of them cannot even remember his real name.
** While his nickname comes from his race and education, functionally speaking he's a Twofer because he's black and (usually) ''sane'' - which is definitely a minority on the TGS staff.
** This is Lampshaded in a later episode. Floyd interviews for a high-level job; Jack thinks he's a shoo-in until they see that the other candidate for the job is a handicapped black man. "You're not beating that."
* "Original Cindy" from ''DarkAngel'' is a black lesbian.
* Willow from [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]], who describes herself in Season 8 (the comic) as a "gay Wiccan Jewess."
** In the Buffy RPG, her CharacterSheet gave her Minority Flaw bonus points for all three.
* Anthony on ''Designing Women'' is the only regular who is either black or male (all the other regulars are white women).
* In one episode of SitCom ''Rachel Gunn, R.N'' the main characters were debating how only the white Male Doctor wasn't a minority or discriminated against. There were two female nurses, a native American nurse and a black orderly. The final member was a black nun who when filling out a form had to tick "Other: explain"
* Lampshaded in {{The Young Ones}} in which comedian Arnold Brown is accused of being 'Scottish and Jewish - two stereotypes for the price of one'.
* {{House}} has Thirteen, who is a bisexual woman with a fatal illness. Briefly, there was a black Mormon who looked like he might have stuck around, but they already had Foreman and apparently Jewish Wilson is enough on the religious side. They manage to cram an awful lot of diversity into a very small cast.
**Yeah, they do. Taub is Jewish too, while Cuddy seems to have some Jewish roots. Kutner is Indian, though he was brought up by an American family. Chase is an Australian of Czech descent. House and Cameron are atheists.
* The American version of {{The Office}}, whose humor largely consists of Steve Carell accidentally insulting minorities, has Oscar, who is both gay and Mexican.
* TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody had a particularly {{Anvilicious}} episode about diversity involving a black man in a wheelchair.
* Jake on {{Becker}} is black and blind - and he ends up dating an Asian woman.
* ''Pizza'' had Sleek: Lebanese and bisexual.
* In one of his comedy routines John Leguizamo describes an uncle of his as "what you might call a triple threat." (counting off on his fingers) "He was Hispanic, gay and deaf"
*{{TrueBlood}}'s Lafayette is gay and black.
* Lloyd Lee of {{Entourage}} is a gay Asian.
* Lord Bowler of TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr was Black and Cherokee, but in [[TheThemeParkVersion a version]] of the OldWest that seemed devoid of racism.
* Strangely, [[FlashForward2009 FlashForward]] averts this trope, as you have several minorities that are straight, but one non-minority (Janis Hawk) who is lesbian. Her girlfriend Maya, however, would fit, as she is both lesbian and Hispanic.
* On {{Glee}}, we have Tina Cohen-Chang, who is both Jewish and Asian, with a stutter. [[spoiler: Partially subverted, as she's faking the stutter.]]

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* Woozie Mu in ''GrandTheftAuto San Andreas'' is a blind Asian. Not so much tokenism, as being necessary for the jokes.
* Alyx Vance in ''Half-Life 2'' is a woman of black and Asian descent... which would make her a three-fer.
** But remember, she [[ButNotTooBlack isn't too black]] (or Asian for that matter). Her dad, Eli, fits this better. [[spoiler: Or fitted. *weeps*]]
* The Demoman of ''TeamFortress2'' calls himself a "a black Scottish cyclops", and laments that there're more [=CENSOREDCENSORECENSORED=] that the like of him. He's not an actual cyclops - he has one ''remaining'' eye; he wasn't born with only one eye in the middle of his face. [[FreakyIsCool But that would be awesome.]]

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[[folder: Web Original ]]

* Zaboo in ''TheGuild'' is a self described "Hinjew", half Indian, half Jewish
* Chaka, among others in the WhateleyUniverse. Chaka is a black female bisexual formerly-male mutant. Is there such a thing as a ''fivefer''? (Pretty much everyone in Poe Cottage at Whateley Academy is automatically a twofer or threefer, since they're all mutants and all [=LGBTI=], and about half of them are female.)
** And she's 'running up the walls' hyperactive. Sixfer?

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* Foxxy Love on ''DrawnTogether'' is also a threefer: black, female, and bisexual (though it appears EveryoneIsBi according to the RuleOfFunny.
* Elisa Maza from ''{{Gargoyles}}''; female, black, Native American, and ''human'', in a cast that is overwhelmingly none of these. Fourfer FTW!
** Originally Elisa was Hispanic. She was made half-black and half-Native American to match her voice actress, Salli Richardson.
* When Dale on ''KingOfTheHill'' is being opposed for Gun Club President, he states that his opponent has "already got the black vote -- Earl -- and the gay vote -- Earl."
* Asian Reporter Tricia Takanawa on ''Family Guy''. (Asian and female) But that is, of course, part of the point. Same with Blaccuweather Forecaster Ollie Williams, who for his hilarious delivery is quite a fan-favorite.
* ''Supposedly'' Alexis in ''TransformersArmada'' is Vietnamese. However, it's never mentioned anywhere but a writer interview and she looks pretty dang white, so it might not count.
* [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Toph]], blind female, sure. But does being an Asian in an All-Asian world count? Is she a minority whenever she's outside the Earth Kingdom? Well, she's a twofer, at least.
** I'm pretty sure that being female in Avatar definitely doesn't make you a minority - at least, after season one.
* Taranee from {{WITCH}} is a threefer - bespectacled black/Asian.
* Isabella Garcia-Shapiro from {{Phineas and Ferb}} - Her name would suggest that she's half Hispanic and half Jewish. And while we have yet to meet her father, her mother is definitely Hispanic.
* Lena Mack from ''Street Sharks''. She's also virtually the only woman there.

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[[folder: Real Life ]]

* The members of freak folk duo Cocorosie definitely qualify as French Jewish lesbians, making them threefers.
**Fourfers. They're part-Native American.
* Condoleezza Rice--black, female, rumoured to be gay. OrSoIHeard. Even if the third one isn't true, though, throw in her being a neoconservative politician and you have a very rare gem indeed.
**The Bush administration in fact had more ethnic minorities than any other in history.
*** I suppose we can draw our own conclusions from that fact.
* Stand-up comedian MargaretCho is an American-born Korean female FagHag/bisexual, making her a threefer (by her own standards, at least; YourMileageMayVary).
* CNN reporter Soledad O'Brien: female, black, Hispanic.
** And Irish!
* Comedian Stephen K. Amos, black and gay.
* Much of the discussion around who Barack Obama might nominate to the Supreme Court has centred on such twofers as Sonia Sottomayor (female and Hispanic) and Kathleen Sullivan (female and gay).
* Current Australian Federal Minister for Climate Change and Water, Penelope "Penny" Ying-yen Wong, Asian lesbian.
* White Women are becoming this in American advertising. If there are only going to be 3 people in the shot, they want to cover as many bases as possible because of "diversity". As most companies will now use a black male as the lead example of that "diversity", they need to pick a white female as the opposite of the black male, and she covers "white" and "female". The 3rd person can be male or female, but their ethnicity is usually an east asian Korean or Japanese looking person, or someone who is hispanic. A 4th person will usually be the opposite of the 3rd person (ie an asian male if 3rd was a female hispanic), and only once you start getting to numbers 5 will they put in a "white male".
* Sammy Davis, Jr. was Black, Hispanic and Jewish. In his own words, "When I move into a neighborhood, I wipe it out!"
** Underlined by his golf one-liner, "Talk about a handicap, I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew"
* Christopher Titus has a joke about his in his material, talking to his kid while watching CNN; "You see that lady there? She's part black, part Japanese, and part Native American. Networks don't like to hire too many minorities so they pack as many as they can into one person." (paraphrased)
* U.S. Representative Barney Frank is Jewish and gay.
* Canada's two most recent Governor Generals, Adrienne Clarkson (born in Hong Kong) and Michaëlle Jean (born in Haiti) were non-white and female, as well as both being born outside of Canada.
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